entropy has had the best collection of quotes from various subjects on the current national situation that i’ve seen anywhere, from the best assortment of sources. this guy is really smart and i salute him. this on in particular caught my eye. check out his site for more, and for the link to the article this is from. but this one just made me smile about human beings, which almost never happens:

I wish that this could be published on the front page of every newspaper in America. An Arab-American’s account of his escape from the disaster:

“I was on my back, facing this massive cloud that was approaching, it must have been 600 feet off, everything was already dark. I normally wear a pendant around my neck, inscribed with an Arabic prayer for safety; similar to the cross. A hesidic Jewish man came up to me and held the pendant in his hand, and looked at it. He read the Arabic out loud for a second. What he said next, I will never forget. With a deep Brooklyn accent he said “Brother, if you don’t mind, there is a cloud of glass coming at us, grab my hand, lets get the hell out of here”. He helped me stand up, and we ran for what seemed like forever without looking back. He was the last person I would ever have thought, who would help me. If it weren’t for him, I probably would have been engulfed in shattered glass and debris.”

i can’t say anything to stand up to that and i have to go to class now anyway.